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TODAY IN COMMUNITY North Central Florida area donated 21,000 boxes to Operation Christmas Child to be shipped around the world, 5A. Lake City Reporter FRIDAY & SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 & 21, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75 WEEKEND EDITION 1A TODAY 12-step group A 12-step addiction recovery group meets every Friday evening at 6 p.m. at the Community Revival Center, 244 NE Patterson Ave. in Lake City. For information call 867-6288. Fish dinner Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, 5056 SW State Road 47 in Lake City, prepares fish din ners every Friday from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. The din ner is $6 for two Alaskan pollock filets, corn, baked beans, hushpuppies, cole slaw and tarter sauce. Take out or eat in. Dec. 21 Extravaganza B&S Combs Elks Lodge will be hosting its Christmas Extravaganza for the kids on Dec. 21, 2013 from 12-4 p.m. at B&S Combs Elks Lodge, 1688 NE Washington St. Please contact Carlos Brown at 386-288-6235 for more information. Christmas party VFW Post 2206, 343 Forest Lawn Way, is hosting their Christmas Party on Saturday, Dec. 21. Kickstart will perform at 8 p.m. Well provide finger foods, you bring your friends and well all have a good time. The party is open to the public. Call 386752-5001 for more. Healthy Soul Food The Presley EXCEL and Scholars Program invites the community to a Healthy Soul Food Workshop on Saturday, Dec. 21 at noon at Trinity United Methodist Church, 248 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Street. The workshop is sponsored by Brook Mobley of DaVita Kidney Specialists of Northern Florida. The consultants are Mrs. Elizabeth Jones and Mr. Walter Jones Jr. of Philadephia, Pennsylvania. For additional information call 386-752-4074. Dec. 24 Communion Service Haven Hospice, 6037 W US 90, will host a Holy Communion service on Christmas Eve at the Community Room at Haven Hospice at 6 p.m. The thirty minute service, A Family Tradition, will include Christmas carols, the reading of the Christmas story and serving communion. Everyone is invited. Call Chaplain Donna Carlile at 386-752-9191 for more. Dec. 25 Christmas dinner Merry Christmas from VFW Post 2206. We will have a Christmas din ner from 1-3 p.m. at 343 Forest Lawn Way. Cost is $7 per person. The dinner is open to the public. Call 386-752-5001 for more. CALL US: (386) 752-1293 SUBSCRIBE TO THE REPORTER: Voice: 755-5445 Fax: 752-9400 Vol. 139, No. 228 76 54 Partly Cloudy, 2A TODAYS WEATHER Opinion . . . . . . 4A Faith . . . . . . . . 6A Obituaries . . . . . 5A Advice & Puzzles . . 4B Comics . . . . . . . 5B LAKECITYREPORTER.COM TODAY IN SPORTS Closer look at a local All-American, 1B. Maximus Tyre (from left), 4, Coltin Charles, 5, Hunter Morgan, 5, and Kailub Robinson, 4, shake presents in their classroom to guess what they got for Christmas this year. RIGHT: Students from Ashley Holloways voluntary prekindergarten class take a bow following their Gingerbread Boy performance at the Five Points Elementary School cafeteria on Thursday. Photos by JASON MATTHEW WALKER /Lake City Reporter Gingerbread Boy at Five Points Elementary Bill to repeal Obamacare County bonuses top $1M By STEVEN RICHMOND srichmond@lakecityreporter.com U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho (RGainesville) introduced H.R. 3784 to the House of Representatives, a bill which, if signed into law, would repeal the Affordable Care Act if enroll ment does not reach seven million by March 31, according to a news release sent Thursday. The Obama Administration likes to claim that this healthcare law is hugely popular and is wanted by the American people. I disagree, Yoho said in a prepared state ment. If the administra tion cant even make their own target numbers then the American taxpayer should not be further burdened by this terrible law. The bill will be known as the Nullifying the Unconstitutional Mandate by Evaluating Results (NUMBER) Act. To date, the House of Representatives has voted, and failed, 46 YOHO SEEKS REVERSAL OF ACA Yoho Long stay at shelter may end for pets By AMANDA WILLIAMSON awilliamson@lakecityreporter.com Bones, medium-sized beige dog. Learns quickly, loves treats and wants love. The comments scribbled by hand on Bones evaluation sheet by a Lake City Humane Society volunteer leave out the sad part of his story. Bones has been overlooked. Since 2012, he has sat patiently at the Lake City Humane Society energetic and friendly while other dogs have been adopted out around him. But now, its Bones turn. Today and Saturday, the Lake City Humane Society will hold a Christmas Adoption Special at Petsmart on US Highway 90 to find for ever homes for the 10 dogs who have lived at the shelter the longest, including Bones. Its Christmas time, said Holly Dunlap, administrative assistant at the Lake City Humane Society. We have Would be 47th attempt by GOP to undo law. $35 million facility for seniors in the works By STEVEN RICHMOND srichmond@lakecityreporter.com Capital Trust Agency plans to issue $35 million of revenue bonds toward the creation of a roughly 130-unit senior living facil ity within city limits slated for completion late 2015. Capital Trust Agency, an independent public body formed via an interlocal agreement between the cities of Gulf Breeze and Century in 1999, will issue $35 million of its revenue bonds to Rimrock Devlin LLC, a construction firm based in Lake City. According to Rimrock Devlins website, the new facility will be located on a six-acre tract behind Big Lots in Lake City and will have around 130 housing units for seniors72 for assisted living and 58 for memory support units. LivingVentures Management, LLC, will be the initial managers of the new facility. The city council unani mously passed a resolution Monday evening approving Capital Trusts bond issue following a series of public hearings. JASON MATTHEW WALKER /Lake City Reporter Lake City Police Departments newest officer Marc S. Hardison, gets his badge pinned by his wife, Sylvia, during a swearing-in ceremony held at City Hall Council Chambers on Thursday. I love being able to help people in the community, Hardison said. LCPD swearing-in ceremony Help for families during holidays By TONY BRITT tbritt@lakecityreporter.com The Christian Service Center of Columbia County began its annual Christmas Basket Giveaway to the Needy event Thursday morn ing, serving hundreds of county residents who are in financial distress. The recipients were taken from a list of individu als who have been in our center this past year and have established a seri ous need, said Kay Daly, Christian Service Center of Columbia County executive CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER TONY BRITT /Lake City Reporter Ken Bassett (left) and Nick Whitehurst, Christian Service Center volunteers, load items into a shopping cart Thursday afternoon at the Christian Service Center warehouse. GIVEAWAY continued on 5A HUMANE continued on 3A BONDS continued on 3A BILL continued on 3A Each employee to receive one-time payment of $1,650. By STEVEN RICHMOND srichmond@lakecityreporter.com The board of county com missioners approved a $1,650 bonus to its employees while commissioners sort out bud get priorities, including the viability of across-the-board employee raises, during Thursday evenings meeting. County Manager Dale Williams said they plan to have the bonuses, totaling a little over $1.2 million for the county, distributed to employees sometime before Christmas. The bonuses came in lieu of across-the-board cost-of-living raises that county employees have not seen since 2008. We cannot, at this time, fully implement an increase in adjusting salaries, com missioner Ron Williams said. During the process of our budget hearings, we said wed BONUSES continued on 3A

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Record highRecord low Normal month-to-dateNormal year-to-date FRI 7654 SAT 8161 SUN 8158 MON 7047 TUE 6540 WEATHER BY-THE-DAY 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 FriSatSunMonTueWedThu 70 77 68 61 68 7171 34 52 46 36 34 3333 Actual highActual low Average highAverage low REGIONAL FORECAST MAP for Friday, Dec. 20 Friday's highs/Friday night's low 4 Moderate mins to burn 40 Partly cloudy Patchy fog Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Isolated storms Mostly cloudy Partly cloudy 10:02 a.m. HI LOHI LOHI LOHI LOHI LO 2013 53.85" 9:34 p.m. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS AROUND FLORIDA District sued over gay-straight club OCALA  The ACLU is suing a Florida school district for the second time this year, claiming it is once again refusing to approve a gay-straight alliance club at a middle school. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the federal lawsuit against the Lake County Schools on Thursday. Lake County is northwest of Orlando. Earlier this year, the ACLU sued the district after officials refused to approve a gay-straight alli-ance club at Carver Middle School. A short time later, the school board agreed to a settlement allowing the club to form. But the board passed new rules for school clubs and required all existing clubs to reapply in order to meet. The application for a gay-straight club at Carver Middle School was rejected. A district spokesman says they havent seen the lawsuit.Autistic boy gets to keep chickens DEBARY  A 3-yearold autistic boy will get to keep his backyard chick-ens thanks to a decision by the DeBary City Council. The council voted unanimously on Wednesday to grant an exemption to the family of J.J. Hart that allows the child to keep his chickens. Earlier in December the coun-cil voted to end a pilot program that allowed residents to keep chickens with a permit. The boys family says hes made significant prog-ress since they got the chickens, which were rec-ommended by a physician as a form of therapy. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports the familys lawyer had threat-ened a lawsuit if the child wasnt allowed to keep the chickens. City Attorney Kurt Ardaman says the exemp-tion isnt automatic for anyone with disabilities. Future requests will have to be approved.History textbook under fire OCALA  Some conservative activists in the Ocala area say a state-approved textbook for 10th graders slights Christianity and Judaism while being favor-ably biased toward Islam. The Ocala Star-Banner reports that Randy Osborne, chairman of the local Republican Party, told the board recently that the books 36 pages about Islam were actu-ally a propagation of the worlds second biggest religious faith. A spokeswoman for the publisher counters that the book meets state stan-dards in accordance with Floridas adopted history curriculum, which directs that Christianity and Judaism be explored more fully in earlier grades. The critics of World History demanded at the School Boards meeting in late November that the book be pulled from area schools. A workshop with the districts textbook selec-tion committee has been scheduled for Jan. 30.Editors note: The following announcements usually run on the Faith & Values page. Dec. 24 Church AnnouncementsCandlelight serviceOur Redeemer Lutheran Church on HWY 47 will have a candlelight service on Christmas Eve at 7:30 p.m. All are invited. Family serviceSt. James Episcopal Church is inviting the community to their Christmas Eve services on Tuesday, Dec. 24. The 4:30 service will be a family service with a childrens Christmas pageant. The 11 p.m. service will be a traditional candlelight ser-vice. St. James is located at the corner of SW Bascom Norris Drive and McFarlane Ave. I Love Lucy in color on CBS tonightY ou look at them, and some-how its not how theyre supposed to look: Lucy and Ricky, Fred and Ethel, moving around familiar sets doing their familiar I Love Lucy thing. And yet they seem more substantial, more real. Because this time, they are ren-dered in color. Fred looks stylish in light-brown tweed. Ethel is resplendent in a purple Christmas dress. The furni-ture and carpeting in the Ricardos apartment is not gray and grayer but blue and subtly mauve. And Lucy  well, Lucy is her usual ball of chaos, with one key difference: Her red hair, implied over and over during the shows 1951-57 run, is inevitably, assertively, undeniably, out-of-a-bottle red. With the I Love Lucy Christmas Special (8 p.m. ET Friday), CBS ventures into the world of color-izing two vintage episodes of an Eisenhower-era TV show that, perhaps more than any other from that period, sent a message down through the years of what life in the 1950s (or, at least, the sitcom ver-sion) might have looked like. The episodes, CBS says, were colorized with a vintage look, a nod to the 1950s period in which the shows were filmed.Seneca Falls, NY claims link to Wonderful Life SENECA FALLS  Is this where George Bailey lived his wonderful life? Folks in this quaint upstate New York town think so. Or more precisely, they say Baileys make-believe hometown of Bedford Falls in Its a Wonderful Life  including the main street and the steel truss bridge  was heavily inspired by Seneca Falls. This cannot be proven, and director Frank Capra never confirmed such a connection. But that hasnt stopped locals from celebrating the beloved movie every December, complete with actors dressed as Clarence the Angel and mean old Mr. Potter parading down a main street gussied up to look like Bedford Falls. Capra always said Bedford Falls represented little slices of small towns that he had visited all across America. Were not in a position to dispute that, said Francis Caraccilo, a trustee for the Seneca Falls Its a Wonderful Life Museum. We just think were a bigger slice. Capras 1946 film stars Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey, a small-town, frustrated banker who realizes his lifes value after Clarence shows him what would become of Bedford Falls if George had never been born. The homey town falls into the clutches of the greedy slumlord Potter, and his Pottersville becomes a city of sin, brimming with sleazy nightclubs, burlesque halls, pawn shops and neon lights. If Bedford Falls (the nice one, not the naughty one) really was mod-eled after Seneca Falls, Capra never let on, and died in 1991. But many in this town of 9,000 say they have a strong circumstantial case. Seneca Falls has a nice broad main street like Bedford Falls, and theres a bridge with a plaque dedi-cated to a man who jumped from the span to save a suicidal woman in 1917  an act echoed in the film. Tuesday: Afternoon: 3-2-2 Thursday: Afternoon: 4-9-8-0 Wednesday: 8-14-16-20-27 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER DAILY BRIEFING FRIDAY & SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 & 21, 2013 Correction The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news items. If you have a concern, question or suggestion, please call the executive editor. Corrections and clarifi cations will run in this space. And thanks for reading. 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Thought for Today Scripture of the DayAnd thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins, Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us.  Luke 1:76-78. Never regret. If its good, its won-derful. If its bad, its an experience.  Victoria Holt (The pen name of English author Eleanor Hibbert, 1906-1993. TONY BRITT /Lake City ReporterLCMS teams with Catholic Charities Lake City Middle School students recently completed a sto cking stuffer drive for Catholic Charities clients. The drive lasted for one week and an estimated 1,050 LCMS students participated by donating toys, school suppli es, and Christmas candy canes. More than 1,200 items were donated. Members of the Lake City Middle School National Junior Honor Society and the sc hools student council led the campaign. Items collected were boxed and packed Tues day so they could be delivered to Catholic Charities. Donna Darby, LCMS Nation al Jr. Honor Society sponsor and Alison Eubank, LCMS Student Council sponso r, arranged the collection drive. Pictured are: Morgan Royals (front row from left), Emily Harrington, Hannah Knight, Deneb Delos Trinos, Christian Chiong and Buie Summerlin. (Back row, from left) Malorie Ronsonet, Jacob Whitchard, Callie W illiams, SK Lewis, Clayton Steinruck, Tori Napolitano, Jevon Williams and M atthew Hunter. JASON MATTHEW WALKER /Lake City ReporterAiming to stop modern-day slaveryLaw enforcement agents pose for a photograph with U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Gainesville, following the Human Traffic king Awareness Meeting held at the Columbia County Sheriffs Office on Wednesday. The meeting helped to highlight the various types of human trafficking and the ways to detect tr afficking victims.2AQ Associated Press Q Associated Press

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Page Editor: Emily Lawson, 754-0424 LAKE CITY REPORTER LOCAL FRIDAY & SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 & 21, 2013 3A 3A Cleopatra J. Steele Ministries/ LAD Soup Kitchen 7th Annual FREE Christmas Feast with ALL the Trimmings 127 Escambia St. Lake City, FL. December 25 11am 2:30pm The city itself will have no obligation, ownership or any other legal or fiscal con nection to the bonds issued by Capital Trust. Under [the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986], you have to have a hearing and an approval of the issuing body to move forward, according to Capital Trusts Executive Director Ed Gray III. This does not at all circumvent what must take place. The citys resolution of approval, passed unani mously during a council meeting Monday night, does not constitute endorsement, zoning approval, evaluation or opinion. Its just something theyre required to do by law, Gray said. The $35 million is part of an overall $165 million bond issue under consid eration from Capital Trust to Rimrock Devlin finance construction of additional senior living facilities out side of Columbia County. Rimrock Devlin said the facility will open in late 2015. dogs that have been here for over a year. To me, its so sad that these dogs have been here this long, especially Bones. This will be his second Christmas. The event lasts from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. today and Saturday. The 10 dogs and four cats that have been there the longest will have reduced prices. For the dogs, the normal adoption fee of $120 has been reduced to $50. For the four cats, interested adopters will pay only $40. For the last week, a vol unteer dog trainer, Lorraine Moore, has worked with the 10 dogs to ensure that they have good manners, behave on a leash and get along with other dogs and cats. Over the week, Moore uncovered the areas where each dog struggles and where they excel. Were looking for long-term commitment, Dunlap said. A lot of these dogs have been here so long. ... But every dog is a good dog. To help new owners jump the hurdle of pet adoption, the humane society will be providing two free obedience les sons. Dunlap said they hope to help make the relationship a good one. While the adoption event will feature other dogs and cats, the goal is to adopt out the 10 dogs and four cats that truly need a forever home. Teena Ruffo, operations manager of the Humane Society, asks that people not adopt dogs or cats with the intention of gift ing them for Christmas, unless the person receiv ing the pet knows. In addition to Bones, the event will feature Pollo, Gerald, Moon, Jingles, Darla, Terry, Butch, Loretta and Joey. For cats, it will feature Midnight, Destiny, Leo and Merry. Bones is the only dog in the group to have been at the shelter since 2012. The others have been admit ted into the shelter during 2013, but some as far back as March. We just hope a lot of people show up, Ruffo said. A lot of people will be out shopping, but we dont know how many will think, Lets go buy a dog. But maybe they will. Maybe they will think to save a dogs life instead of buying something that doesnt mean anything. The Humane Society warns new pet owners and current pet owners to be careful during the holiday season since a major cause of emer gency room visits for pets is ingestion of food and other substances. Poultry bones can splinter and get stuck in a pets mouth, obstruct its throat or puncture its intestines. Keep chocolate far away from dogs, as one ounce can be fatal to a dog under 10 pounds. Holly berries and mistletoe are extremely dangerous to pets. Decorations and gifts can become a choking hazard for dogs of all sizes. times to repeal the ACA, also known as Obamacare. However, this would be the first repeal attempt linked to a hard enrollment quota. According to Yohos chief of staff Omar Raschid, seven million was not an arbitrary number chosen by the con gressmen or his allies. Were holding the [Obama] administration to numbers they themselves set, Raschid said. They said the target goal is seven million enrollees. The bill as written would repeal [the ACA] completely if we dont see that by March 31. However, the Congressional Budget Office was the original fed eral entity that estimated a seven million person enroll ment by 2014, and did not take into account an Internet rollout delayed for months by bugs and programming errors when they issued their report in May. Once the CBO released those numbers, members from both sides of the aisle began latching on to the seven million figure as a benchmark of sustainability for Obamas signature leg islation. Katherine Sebelius, direc tor of the ACAs exchange rollout, also said success looks like at least seven mil lion during an interview with NBC news on Oct. 1, the original launch date of HealthCare.gov. However, policy ana lysts noted that the ACAs viability is not contingent upon raw enrollment num bers, but rather the ratio of young, healthy individu als (young invincibles) to older, sicker citizens who enroll in the exchange. Yohos bill currently has 19 cosponsorsall Republicanincluding Rep. Bill Posey (R-Rockledge). Yoho himself is also a cosponsor of H.R. 2300 and H.R. 3121, two alternative proposals to the ACA, the release said. This commonsense bill simply holds the Administration accountable to those numbers, Yoho said. And if they are not met the Affordable Care Act is fully repealed. BONDS Continued From 1A BILL Continued From 1A HUMANE Continued From 1A Engineer of escape plan was SCI inmate By MARGIE MENZEL The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE The Florida Department of Law Enforcement on Thursday announced the arrests of six current and former prison inmates in a con tinuing investigation into two escapes using forged documents last fall. The six face a combined 37 charges of conspiracy, escape, forgery and har boring an escaped prison er. Those charged include Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins, who were serving life sentences for murder from Orange County and now face additional charg es. The two men escaped from Franklin Correctional Institution using bogus court paperwork indicat ing their sentences had been reduced: Jenkins on Sept. 27 and Walker on Oct. 8. They were captured in Panama City Beach on Oct. 19. Authorities know of five other attempted escapes using the same method, including two that were underway when the fraud was discovered. One of the prior attempts was by Jenkins. The attempts occurred at the Franklin Correctional and Gulf Correctional institutions and the Pinellas County Jail. FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey said the very complex investiga tion will continue. These arrests represent significant progress in this case, and we definitely have a more clear understand ing of the fraud, Bailey said. But its important that you understand this is still an active investigation. We still have numerous leads and evidence to filter through. Bailey described Nydeed Nashaddai, 48, as the engi neer of the scheme and the first to use it before passing his knowledge on to his fellow inmates. Nashaddai is at Suwannee Correctional Institution and faces an additional four counts in connection with Walker and Jenkins escapes. Also arrested: Willie Slater Jr., 36, who faces nine counts for his outside role, which includ ed ensuring that the forged documents arrived at the Orange County Clerk of Courts office. Terrance Goodman, 37, who drove Jenkins and Walker to Panama City and rented them a motel room. He faces one count of harboring a fugitive and two counts of conspiracy to commit escape. Jeffrey Forbes, 30, an inmate at Florida State Prison, who faces four counts including escape, conspiracy and forgery. The forged documents used by Walker and Jenkins were created at Franklin Correctional Institution and included the seal of the Orange County clerk of courts office and sig natures of circuit officials, including Ninth Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr. and Orange County State Attorney Jeffrey Ashton. Bailey said so far, the investigation hasnt point ed to anyone in author ity in the criminal justice system being a part of the scheme. We have no indication ... that anyone in the prison system or at the clerks office was involved with this fraud, he said. But Department of Corrections Secretary Michael Crews said authorities are still exam ining the role of the access that inmates had to com puters and printers in the prison. Were looking at what we legally have to provide, he said. The state expects to begin using a secure e-sys tem in February 2014 to transmit court orders so as to close the door on similar attempts in the future. Woman faces larceny charge By AMANDA WILLIAMSON awilliamson@lakecityreporter.com A Lake City woman faces a charge of larceny after she allegedly stole prescription medication from her father and attempted to sneak more of the pills in the presence of sheriffs deputies, according to an arrest report. Columbia County Sheriffs Office arrested Marsha Merie Spicer, 25, of 298 Scarlett Way, on Wednesday at approximate ly 1:33 p.m. When deputies responded to SE Lomond Avenue in response to a fight, deputy Charles Vaughan was approached by Spicers father, David Spicer. According to David Spicer, his daughter took his prescribed medication, Percocet. As Vaughan was talking to David Spicer, Marsha Spicer walked up to the scene in tears. She refused to say where she had been when Vaughan asked, the report said. Marsha Spicer stated she did not take all of the Percocet after Vaughan told her that her father said she had stolen his medication, the report said. She said she had only taken two pills, the report continued. According to the police, Marsha Spicer appeared to be high and could barely stand to talk. Vaughan continued to talk with David Spicer. When he glanced over at Marsha Spicer, sitting in a chair next to her fathers medicine bag, she had her hand inside the bag in attempt to steal more medication, the report read. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON ENACTMENT OF ORDINANCE BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKE CITY, FLORIDA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that City Council Ordinance No. 2013-2043, which title hereinafter appears, will be considered for 21, 2014, at 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter can be may appear and be heard with respect to the ordinance. CITY COUNCIL ORDINANCE NO. 2013-2043 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKE CITY, FLORIDA, AMENDING SECTION 2-48, SUBSEC TION C.1. OF CHAPTER 2 OF ARTICLE II OF THE CITY CODE WITH RESPECT TO THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AD VISORY COMMITTEE (CRAC) TO INCREASE ITS MEMBER SHIP BY PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A MEMBER DESIGNATED BY THE COLUMBIA COUNTY BOARD OF COUN TY COMMISSIONERS AND A MEMBER DESIGNATED BY THE LAKE CITY COLUMBIA COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, INC.; PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT WITH THIS ORDINANCE; PROVIDING FOR A SEV ERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR THE INCLUSION OF THIS ORDINANCE IN THE CITY CODE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Any interested party shall be advised that the date, time and place will be published. All persons are advised that, if they decide to appeal any decision testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based. In accordance with the Americans With Disabilities Act, if any accom modations are needed for persons with disabilities, please contact AUDREY E. SIKES, MMC. City Clerk Spicer look at giving a bonus until we can get the salary sur vey done and implement ed. However, commission ers and staff discussed the next steps in the pro cess toward implement ing those raises now that a comprehensive salary study is in the works. Commissioners also approved as part of their consent agenda a $23,700 salary survey conducted by Cody & Associates, Inc. We have received a draft of that survey and it was received by me on Wednesday, Dale Williams said, adding that he had barely gleaned any of the information in the survey since then. Commissioner Bucky Nash voiced his disapproval of having to pay a third party to conduct the survey. If youre going to have managers, they should have enough gray matter to be able to go through and pick out the ones that are overpaid and under paid and fix it among our selves and save the taxpay ers $23,000, he said. Nash reasoned since the last pay raises, the county has granted bonuses aver aging about $1,000 a year to its employees. If you look at what weve done, weve trained the employees to expect a $1000 bonus at Christmas, Nash said. Ill ask them do you want $1,000 bonus for Christmas or do you want a raise? Ron Williams also noted employees year-end bonuses will actually total $2,000, if the waived fam ily health insurance pre miums are included in the equation. Due to 2011 state leg islation regarding the granting of bonuses, the $1,650 check is good for all employees that worked during the 2012-13 fiscal year (Oct. 1, 2012-Sept. 30, 2013). Part time employees or those hired after Oct. 1 would receive bonuses pro-rated to reflect their tenure. Employees hired after Oct. 1 of this year are not eligible for the bonus. Once the commission ers voted unanimously to pass the measure, Clerk of Courts DeWitt Cason shuffled out of the audito rium to begin the neces sary paperwork. 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OPINION Friday, December 20, 2013 www.lakecityreporter.com 4A Lake City Reporter Serving Columbia County Since 1874 The Lake City Reporter is published with pride for residents of Columbia and surrounding coun-ties by Community Newspapers Inc. We believe strong newspapers build strong communities  Newspapers get things done! Our primary goal is to publish distinguished and profitable community-oriented newspapers. This mission will be accomplished through the teamwork of professionals dedicated to truth, integrity and hard work. Todd Wilson, Publisher Robert Bridges, Editor Sue Brannon, Controller Dink NeSmith, President Tom Wood, Chairman ANOTHER VIEW LETTERS POLICY Letters to the Editor should be typed or neatly written and double spaced. Letters should not exceed 400 words and will be edited for length and libel. Letters must be signed and include the writers name, address and telephone number for verification. Writers can have two letters per month published. Letters and guest columns are the opinion of the writers and not necessarily that of the Lake City Reporter BY MAIL: Letters, P.O. Box 1709, Lake City, FL 32056; or drop off at 180 E. Duval St. downtown. BY FAX: (386) 752-9400. BY EMAIL: news@lakecityreporter.com Tis the season to drive carefully What is a Buddy Bench? Y es, it was fun playing when we were kids. But sometimes during those long days in grade school class, I remember feeling restless, or sometimes bored. Id gaze out the window or fall back on daydreams. Recess and lunch were often a welcome relief. Playing games or sports could be fun, or playing on the swings or slide, or sometimes just hanging around with friends. The free and unstructured activity was fun, and felt good. But, theres another side to the freedom. Freedom and lack of structure can come with its own costs. Sometimes I wandered around, looking for something to do, or someone to do it with. It wasnt always easy to find activi-ties or friends to join with. It could at times be lonely or frustrating. Sometimes teachers monitored the playground or field, but kids could fall between the cracks, or have difficulty finding or choosing an activity, or finding someone to play with. Whats the answer? Has anyone come up with good solutions or ideas? Sometimes the best answers can come from the children them-selves! I caught a story on network news recently: Christian Bucks, an elementary school student, had spent some time in a school in Germany. When he returned to the States, he attended a school new and unfamiliar to him in York, Pennsylvania. He felt left out, confused, and a little shy about join-ing with a group or joining in with games or sports. He remembered an idea he had seen in the school he attended in Germany: The school there had provided a bench on the play-ground, with a sign painted on it: Buddy Bench. The idea was for you to sit on the bench if you want-ed something to do, or someone to do it with. Surely there would be others who also wanted to find companionship, or activities to join. It worked well as a connecting and coordinating station. Christian told his teacher about the idea. Thankfully, she was receptive and interested in the idea, and brought it to the attention of other teachers and the administration. The idea was used, and has spread, as an easy way for many schools to help with this need for connecting kids for socializing, playing, and sports. What a great idea! My own family moved across the country a few times, and it would definitely have helped me to adjust and make new connections, and to find activities Id have enjoyed. Im sure there are lots of kids that would have been so much better off if they could have had that help. Who knows; maybe there would be less frustrated youth who may feel left out. Do you think it might save us from even one school shooting incident? What you can do? Can you imagine the same principle being help-ful to folks of all ages? How about a golf buddy bench, a bowling team bench, an Ill dance with you bench, a club bench, or a look-ing for a lab partner bench? What kind of a bench would help connect you to new activities or friends? Im sure there are others who would want to join with you. Think about it? Peace on Earth, good will to man . but on the highway, not so much. A study by David Brown, a University of Alabama professor who studies holiday traffic (perhaps if youre studying the traffic, it means youre not stuck in it), found that the six days around Christmas showed 18 percent more accidents than Thanksgiving week-end, the heaviest travel days of the year, and 27 percent more than New Years Eve when drivers are perhaps handicapped by an excess of holiday cheer. Claims for collisions increase by almost 20 percent during December, accord-ing to the Highway Loss Data Institute, which indicates thats probably on the low side because many minor fender benders happen in mall parking lots and are settled privately. The problem is that probably you and certainly your fellow drivers are stressed out and short-tempered by the extra traf-fic, including people who arent really sure where theyre going, and the neces-sity to pick up a lot of stuff in scattered locations. Holidays, it is no secret, are stressful. State Farm Insurance found that 32 percent of drivers were likely to become more aggressive during the holidays. Brown says that this year the worst, and most hazardous traffic, will fall on the Friday before Christmas, although the next four days leading up to Christmas are likely to be no safe-driving clinic either. The safest day to drive? Christmas Day itself. Nobodys out there on the roads, Brown said. Its a very safe day to drive. Its also a good day to rest up, relax and unwind because that weekend there will be all the gift returns and post-Christmas sales. A s far as I know, President Barack Obama never said that if you like your life insur-ance options, you can keep them. He may therefore get off the hook as a deceiver if the Dodd-Frank regulatory law does what is now plotted, though he will still share responsibility for the insurance provision that along with others could bloody lots of noses. A conglomeration of marketplace interventions lovingly promoted by the president, Dodd-Frank is now barreling our way. Its true that dif-ferent agencies had been too busy bumping into each other, consulting with affected parties and wrestling with complicated passages to get all the rules written. But Obama called the regulators in to tell them, by golly, to start regulating. And so, befuddled or not, the regulators are coming. The idea behind the law  officially known as the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act  is to make sure we never have another financial crisis of the kind we had in 2008. It was supposed to address the issue of too big to fail, does so questionably with lopsided prohibitions and is ultra-filled with a jumble of bureaucratically empow-ering irrelevancies and potentially damaging, obscure guesstimates. This collaboration of the intellectually presumptuous and the ideologically driven is finally too big to succeed. Not the least of it is an unnecessary and in fact inexcusable addendum concerning life insurance companies. It lumps them with insti-tutions regarded as posing threats to the financial system if something goes terribly awry. A not infinitesimal issue is that they do no such thing. If companies failed in insurance pursuits, many people would suf-fer, but the financial system would not be affected in a major way. It is additionally observed that states have done a reputable job oversee-ing them and that the companies themselves have done a remark-able job of sound, alert manage-ment. Intervene foolishly, and, as Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has written with reference to a study, purchasers could some day have fewer choices in policies that could also cost more and return less. Members of both parties in Congress are wise to this stupidity and just maybe, conceivably, will do some little something about it, though that would be a meager start to what is really needed. Whats hugely important to a decent American future are bold, enlightened souls who will further reshape Dodd-Frank and, beyond that, reduce the rest of our egre-gious regulatory excess. Right now the mishmash exceeds an astound-ing 134,000 pages of federal rules that are more than a little punish-ing, as an underpublicized study underlines. Two economists (John Dawson and John Seater) estimated that federal regulations promulgated over the past 60 years may have made Americans close to one-fourth as well-off as we would be with-out them. If, then, you want some rough notion of what a more liber-ated economy might possibly have done for you, multiply your current income by four. But wait. Werent many of those regulations really, truly needed? Yes, of course. But many werent and are constitutional affronts. As a Wall Street Journal series showed, a vast number have even led to criminal charges against people who could not possibly have known they were violating any stricture, a practice aspiring to despotism. Look, too, at how nothing is too tiny to generate colossal govern-mental consternation. Right now, the Federal Trade Commission is going after a 137-year-old, nonprofit music association for suggesting to its members  mostly piano teach-ers  that they shouldnt try to recruit students from each other. A Journal columnist, Kim Strassel, notes that the group has had to turn over thousands of documents, sign a silliness-ridden consent decree and submit to a burdensome, costly 20-year antitrust compliance pro-gram. And for what? Proffering an admonishment. Its craziness that wont affect most of us the way new life insur-ance rules might and Obamacare has recently been doing by stick-ing consumers with higher health insurance deductibles. But it does help describe the current reign of in-your-face governmental bullying. Obamas regulatory bullying Robert DennyBob.Denny8@gmail.com Q Bob Denny teaches psychology at Florida Gateway College and enjoyed a career as mental health therapist for families and troubled youth in Florida. Address your comments to Bob.Denny8@gmail.com or 386-454-4950. Q Jay Ambrose, formerly Washington director of editorial policy for Scripps Howard newspapers and the editor of dailies in El Paso, Texas, and Denver, is a columnist living in Colorado. Jay AmbroseSpeaktoJay@aol.com Q Scripps Howard News Service4AOPINION

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Page Editor: Emily Lawson, 754-0424 LAKE CITY REPORTER COMMUNITY FRIDAY & SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 & 21, 2013 5A5Adirector. The food has been donated compliments of all of the churches in the area, as well as individuals who have donated funds to help us purchase food and the Kiwanis Club of Lake City who have also donated many baskets towards the total. Daly said approximately 260 families will be receiv-ing the baskets for feeding around 600 people. The Christmas basket giveaway began Thursday morning around 8:30 p.m. and went to 5 p.m. Approximately 25 Christian Service Center of Columbia County volunteers helped pack and organize or carry the food to the clients vehicles as they pulled into the facilitys warehouse parking lot. The Christmas baskets contained turkey, eggs, bread, yogurt, stuffing, vegetables and a variety of other items that are normally cooked for a tradi-tional Christmas meal. Baskets were also slated to be given to clients today who were unable to pick up their baskets Thursday. Law enforcement officers were on site to make sure there were no traffic issues. The city does not like us to back traffic up out onto a thoroughfare, so it helps us to keep the traffic moving appropriately and it makes sure nobody gets hurt, Daly said. She said the operation went smooth as glass and everyone had a good time participating. We prayed with each individual that comes through, Daly said, noting local pastors that support CSC were on hand to pray with clients as they leave the premises. Russell Taylor, Christ Fellowship Baptist Church pastor, prayed with several of the clients and helped volunteers throughout the day. I talked to Kay and felt like this ministry has a great deal of integrity and has a heart to fulfill our calling as Christians and minister to those people that are in genuine need and this is the best place I know to do that, he said. We wanted to be involved in it for that reason and its been a blessing to be able to watch the way people respond and watch what God is doing through this ministry. The Christian Service Center is scheduled to be closed the week of Christmas and Daly said they decided to give the baskets the week before. The Christian Service Center and its Lighthouse Gift Shop is slated to re-open Jan. 2. GIVEAWAYContinued From 1AOver 21,000 shoeboxes lled By AMANDA WILLIAMSONawilliamson@lakecityreporter.comT oothbrushes, soap, school supplies and toys were packed neatly into shoe-box-sized containers throughout the year to be shipped this December to more than 100 different countries for Operation Christmas Child  a program designed to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with children around the world. The North Central Florida area donated 21,000 shoeboxes for this years holiday season, and their boxes are already on their way across the world. Shipped out of Atlanta, the presents will find their way to Belize, Botswana, Columbia, Gabon, Haiti, Ghana, Madagascar, South Africa, Trinidad, Ukraine and more. Its a great way of spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ  one child at a time, said Jo-Ann Pettigrew, the local collection center coordinator. The kids in the foreign countries we send to  over 130  can not go to school if they dont have school supplies. So we try to include pencils, paper, erasers and more. According to Pettigrew, the 21,000 boxes totals 2,000 more boxes than they sent out last year. She said its been an awesome year, despite the economy. The local collection area covers 10 counties, including Baker, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, Levy, Madison, Suwannee and Taylor. Throughout the year, churches, volunteer organizations and chari-ties collect supplies to be includ-ed in the Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. The program allows school supplies, hygiene items and toys. People are not allowed to send damaged or used items, war-related items, food, medications or breakable items. Started more than 20 years ago by Franklin Graham, Operation Christmas Child is a project of Samatrians Purse. It has provid-ed more than 103 million shoebox gifts since its inception. When the shoeboxes reach their destina-tion, pamphlets are also given to children by the program to teach about the Scriptures. In Lake City, Jo-Ann Pettigrew and her husband Bob Pettigrew, who also works as a local collec-tion center coordinator, attend the Orchard Community Church. Every month, they attempt to col-lect donations of a different item to be included in the annual boxes. For example, one month they may collect soap and washcloths, then the next month collect small toys. The stuff that goes into these shoeboxes, if we offered it to kids in the United States, theyd laugh at us, Bob Pettigrew said. But to the kids these boxes go to, theyve never had anything. Jo-Ann Pettigrew remembers a story told by the Suwannee Valley Area Coordinator Colleen Ruehl about a boy in Peru who opened his box and pulled out the soap. He smelled the bar, Jo-Ann Pettigrew said, and then told the volunteers it was the nicest thing he had ever smelled. According to Bob Pettigrew, Florida and Puerto Rico collected approximately 500,000 boxes this year. The children and volunteers get the boxes to their destina-tions any way they can  some boxes get parachuted in, some arrive by boat, others by camel, donkey or cart. We appreciate all the folks that have helped here, Bob Pettigrew said, adding that any church that wants to participate next year should just call him for information. To reach Bob and Jo-Ann Pettigrew, contact them at 386-935-1958. OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD COURTESY PHOTOSShoeboxes filled with toys, school supplies, and persona l hygiene items are sent yearly to children around the world. North Central Florida area filled 2,000 more boxes than last year. Along with their toys, children receive pamphlets that sha re the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in their language. Bob and Jo-Anne Pettigrew are volunteers at the local Op eration Christmas Child collection centers. COMMUNITY CALENDAR Q To submit your Community Calendar item, contact Emily Lawson at 754-0424 or by e-mail at elawson@lakecityreporter.com. Dec. 31New Years Eve partyVFW Post 2206, 343 Forest Lawn Way, is host-ing their New Years Eve Party on Tuesday, Dec. 31. Kickstart will perform at 7 p.m. Well provide finger foods, party favors and complimentary champagne toast at midnight. The party is open to the public. Call 386-752-5001 for more.Jan. 5Zumba ClassSarah Sandlin, Zumba Instructor fot the City of Lake City, is offering a free Zumba class on Jan. 5 at the Teen Town city building at Youngs Park from 4-5 p.m. This will be a beginners class where youll learn all the basic moves of this pop-ular dance form. After the free class, a regular Zumba class will be held for $5 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Email Sarah at lakecityzumba@gmail.com for more. Jan. 14Medicare SeminarThe Lifestyle Enrichment Center is sponsoring a free educational Medicare sem-inar on Tuesday, Jan. 14 from 5-6 p.m. Irv Crowetz of C/C & Associates, Inc. will moderate the seminar. RSVP to 386-755-3476 x 107.Jan. 17Masonic BanquetGold Standard Lodge #167 will be hosting their annual Masonic Banquet on Jan. 17 at 7 p.m. at the Westside Community Center. For tickets and more information, contact Chris at 386-623-3611 or Mike at 386-867-6675.Jan. 18King BreakfastThe Presley EXCEL and Scholars Program and Youth for Christ Ministry invite the community to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 85th Birthday Observance Breakfast at the Womans Club, 257 SE Hernando Street. Brooke Mobley of Davita Kidney Specialists of Northern Florida will be the guest speaker. Tickets may be purchased for $20; tables may also be reserved. Call 386-752-4074 for more.Volunteers neededShands LakeShoreShands LakeShore Regional Medical Center Auxiliary is looking for volunteers to work a vari-ety of positions around the hospital. Volunteers are asked to work a four-hour shift once per week, but are welcome to work more often. Volunteers are need-ed to drive the shuttle car and help with jobs in the hospital. If you have some time to donate, come to the gift shop and pick up an application or call (386)292-8000, ext. 21216.Lake City MedicalLake City Medical Center is looking for volunteers. If you have any extra time and a heart for volunteer-ism, please call (386) 758-3385 for more information or visit the hospitals web-site at Lakecitymedical.com or you can stop by the front desk and pick up a paper application.United WayUnited Way of Suwannee Valley is recruiting volun-teers who are willing to be called upon to staff the Columbia County Emergency Operations Centers Information Center during disasters. These volunteers serve as the link between the county emergency man-agement offices and the public when the EOC is activated for disasters. Anyone willing to serve in this capacity when needed or can recruit volunteers through your church or civic organization should call Jenn Sawyer, United Way of Suwannee Vallety long-term recovery coordi-nator, at 752-5604, ext. 101.Hospice of Nature CoastHospice of the Nature Coast has opportuni-ties for volunteers in the Lake City and Live Oak areas. Specialized training will be provided. Contact Volunteer Manager Alvia Lee at 386-755-7714 or email alee@hospiceofcitrus.org for more information and reservations. Walk-ins are welcome but space is limited. For more information call Hospice of the Nature Coast at 386-755-7714 or visit us on the web at www.hospiceofcitrus.org.

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FAITH & VALUES Friday & Saturday, December 20 & 21, 2013 www.lakecityreporter.com 6A 6AF&V W e visited a church last week to hear their Christmas program. I noticed they had a large cross over their baptistry and at the foot of the cross a baby lying in a crib looking up at the cross. What a great idea. The Lord Jesus came as a little baby in a manger; looking toward the cross. Paul told young Timothy in 1 Timothy 1:15, This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. We who are Christian should praise God everyday for this act of love toward us. We are today in what many refer to as the age of deception. Many are so caught up in the things of the season that they forget Jesus real reason for coming to earth. They forget that He could return for His church at any time. The Bible speaks of at least five crowns the Christian can win. One is the watchers crown. In 2 Timothy 4:8 we read, Finally there is laid up for me the crown of righteous-ness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing. Those who are watching for the Lords return are thinking about the things we ought to be thinking about. The great deceiver loves this time of year when so many forget about The Blessed Hope. That is what the coming again of our Lord Jesus for His church is called. More than 320 verses in the New Testament alone refer to this event  The Blessed Hope. Almost every book deals with it to some degree, but chapter 24 of Matthew is among the most complete on the subject. Matthew 24 was not written to the unbeliever, but to the believer. Verse four says Take heed that no one deceive you. I believe you could safely say no one or nothing. Many are deceived this season of the year. The great deceiver is very hard at work taking peoples mind off Christ. Many dont even think about the babe in the man-ger. Being careful not to be deceived seems to be first on the list of concerns and signs of the coming again of our Lord. The same warn-ing is recorded in Mark 13:5-6 and Luke 21:8. The last days of deception will be characterized by the multiplication of false doctrine and decep-tive cults. How significant is this warning in the light of the amazing increase of new sects and cults and isms. No matter how fanatical or satanic these are, people still fol-low them. It is said that there are over 350 differ-ent sects, cults, denomi-nations, and groups in American today. All claim to be right. The question is: Where can the truth be found? The answer is this: The Word of God is the only truth concerning this. The moment we accept a tradition of man or some new movement or new discovery, we are led astray. Anything added or taken away from Gods Word (2nd Timothy 2:15) is wrong and leads to deception. We therefore confidently believe that the signs of the time as record-ed in Gods Word indicate the soon return of the Lord for His own. His own will be those as recorded in John 3:16: For God so loved the world, that He gave His own begotten son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Trust Him today. The holiday season is a season of deception Hugh Sherrillems-hugh43@comcast.net Q Hugh Sherrill is an ordained minister presently serving at Philippi Baptist Church. BIBLE STUDIES I n several of his letters, Paul encourages the members of various churches to whom he has written to be of one mind. How can a group of people from assorted back-grounds and nationalities be of one mind? Quite often it is a very difficult task to get a group of people together to accom-plish a certain function. When this group is of a religious nature, sometimes it seems almost impossible to get them to all agree, to be of one mind. Look at our world and all the different religious practices. We need to consider and think that it is possible for us to be of one mind. The apostle Paul would not have told us to be of one mind if it were impossible to do, therefore it is possible. We simply need to change our thinking. Paul expects us to be of one mind. It is possible. As we meditate upon how we can be of one mind, let us first think about what it means, and second, how we can put it into practice in our local congregations. When we are of one mind we are in unity. We have the same mission. We have the same purpose, the same goals. Everyone is going in the same direc-tion. We might say that we have joined hands to make this program work. One of the mandatory things which we must do if we are going to be of one mind is to forget our own mind. Replacing our own mind with the one mind of the group, we put our-selves in the background and move the group to the forefront. We must be group oriented. We must be seeking the desires of the leader of the group. In the case of a local church, it is the desires of Jesus since He is the Head of the group. There must be a willingness to cooperate with the other members of the group. Each individual member must be looking at themselves and saying, How can I be part of this group? What contribu-tions can I make to this group? How can I be a team player? When differences of opinion arise as to how something must be accom-plished, and they will, we must think of what is best for the group. We must not think of our own prefer-ences but what is the pref-erence of the leader of the group, namely Jesus. What is His opinion as to how things must be done? What are His desires and wishes? Religiously, congregations need to be of one mind. They need to be working together to accom-plish the things which Jesus wants them to accom-plish. They need to be on the same page as to how they can fulfill the mission that Jesus gave to the local congregation. They need to be working together, and not as disjointed individuals working their own agendas. A small band of Christians, working with one mind can accom-plish great feats! In fact, they probably can accom-plish more than congre-gations twice their size solely because they are of one mind. By the same principle, if all the various religious groups were of one mind, what could be accomplished for the cause of Christ? All nationalities coming together as one mind BIBLICAL MEDITATION Carlton McPeakcarlton_mc@msn.com Q Carlton G. McPeak is an evangelist working in the Lake City area. All Scriptural quotations are from the New American Standard Bible, Holman Bible Publishers, unless otherwise stated. Calendar Dec. 22Christmas MusicalThe Elim Baptist Church, 3435 SW Elim Church Road in Fort White, presents Jesus  Theres some-thing about that Name, a Christmas musical, on Sunday Dec. 22 at the 11 a.m. service. Call 386-497-1972 for more.Christmas CantataTustenuggee UMC will present its annual Christmas Cantata on Sunday, Dec. 22 at 6 p.m. Senior choir will sing both contemporary and old favorite Christmas hymns. A reception will fol-l ow in Bussey Hall.Women on a MissionMiracle Tabernacle Church, 1190 SW Sisters Welcome Rd., will have a guest speaker at their Dec. 22 Sunday Service. Missionary Sammie J. Everett of Souls Harbor Church of God in Christ will speak at the 11 a.m. service. This event is sponsored by the Womens department of MTC. Call the church office at 386-758-8452 for more.Candlelight serviceThe Greater Truevine Church, 217 NE Kingston Lane, Watertown, invites the community to join them in their Candlelight Service on Sunday, Dec. 22 at 5 p.m. Dec. 24Candlelight serviceNew Mount Pisgah AMEC, 345 NE Washington St., is having a Christmas Eve Candlelight Service on Tuesday, Dec. 24 from 7-8 p.m. Call 386-752-1830 for more information.Christmas Eve serviceFaith in Christ Church, 282 SW Magical Terrace, is having its Christmas eve can-dlelight service at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 24. All are welcome.

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Lake City Reporter SPORTS Friday & Saturday, December 20 & 21, 2013 www.lakecityreporter.com Section B Story ideas?ContactTim KirbySports Editor754-0421tkirby@lakecityreporter.com 1BSPORTS BRIEFS Today Q Columbia High boys basketball at Orange Park High, 7:30 p.m. (JV-6) Q Fort White High basketball vs. Santa Fe High, 7:30 p.m. (girls-6) Thursday, Dec. 26 Q Columbia High boys basketball at Jarvis Williams Tournament in Palatka, TBA (through Saturday) Q Fort White High boys basketball in Hitchcocks Challenge at Santa Fe High, TBA (through Monday) GAMES PREP FOOTBALL All-star game at Fort White High The 7th annual East/ West High School All-star Football Game is Jan. 18 at Fort White High. The game will feature seniors from surrounding high schools Baldwin, Baker County, Bell, Branford, Chiefland, Columbia, Dixie County, Fort White, Hamilton County, Madison County, Lafayette, Taylor County, Santa Fe, Bradford, Suwannee and Trenton. Admission to the game is $5. Souvenir program ads may be purchased by contacting Carole Dotson at 697-1875. All proceeds from the game will benefit Fort White football and the Richardson Community Center/Annie Mattox Park North youth programs. For details, call chairman William Murphy at 288-4779. ADULT BASKETBALL Open play begins Jan. 7 at RCC Richardson Community Center/Annie Mattox Park North is sponsoring adult (18 and older) open basketball. Play begins Jan. 7 from 8-10 p.m. at Richardson Community Center. Cost is $2. For details, call Chris Craft at 292-1210. RUNNING Registration open for Blue Grey 5k The Olustee Blue Grey 5K is 7:30 a.m. Feb. 15. Discount registration is this week at Carquest Auto Parts or Step Fitness. All runners that register before Jan. 1 are guaranteed a long sleeve dri fit tech tee race shirt. Online registration is at www.stepfitnessonline.com Day-of registration has an increased fee. For details, contact Michelle Richards at stepfitnesslic@yahoo.com ADULT SOFTBALL Winter league registration set Columbia County Adult Softball winter league registration is under way through Jan. 10 with the following schedule: Womens league on Mondays, Church on Tuesdays, Mens on Wednesdays and Co-ed on Thursdays. Cost is $250 at sign-up, along with a team roster and required forms. For details, call Pete Bonilla at 623-6561.Q From staff reports Lake City All-American PAUL BUCHANAN /Lake City ReporterLake City product Timmy Jernigan Jr. (8) makes a tackle for Florida State University against North Carolina State d uring a game earlier this year. Jernigan was named a second-team member of the All-American team on Tuesday. Jernigan Jr. stood out from early age PAUL BUCHANAN /Lake City ReporterTimmy Jernigan Jr. looks across the field in a game ea rlier this year. By BRANDON FINLEYbfinley@lakecityreporter.comBy now the national audience knows the name Timmy Jernigan Jr. Hes one of many stars of the Florida State Seminoles, which will play Auburn for a national title. But Jernigan Jr.s name has been known in Lake City for a long time. Even before being named to the Associated Press All-American team, those around him knew he was going to be a star. County Commissioner Ron Williams coached Jernigan Jr. for one year during his youth years and knew right away that he was going to develop into a monster on the field. Believe it or not, all the credit goes to his daddy, Williams said. He worked with him all the way up. I knew that he should have a Hercules. I knew his daddy would have him ready to be a stud. He was dedicated to have him ready men-tally and physically. Hes just a Hercules, so big and muscular. Columbia County Recreation Director Mario Coppock also knew of Jernigan Jr.s potential from an early age. He was involved with the youth early on, Coppock said. He just grew big-ger and faster. By the time he was in middle school, we all knew. I remember watching and people would doubleand triple-team him to no avail. What I liked the most about him is that he enjoyed playing the game. Although current Columbia High head coach JERNIGAN continued on 3B JASON MATTHEW WALKER /Lake City ReporterFlorida linebaker Michael Taylor tackles Georgias Brendan Douglas during a game at EverBank Field in Jacksonville on Nov. 22.Florida/Michigan agree to meet in Cowboys ClassicAssociated PressFlorida and Michigan will open the 2017 season in the Cowboys Classic in Arlington, Texas. The prime-time game is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 2. It will be Floridas first regular-season, non-con-ference game outside the Sunshine State since the Gators lost at Syracuse in 1991. You dont get these opportunities very often, Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley said. Our schedule has been pretty consistent through the years. We were presented this oppor-tunity and just thought it was something that our fans would embrace, our program would embrace. It would give us great national visibility. Obviously, a very difficult ball game against a storied program  that excites us. Gators to open 2017 season with Wolverines. GATORS continued on 3B

LAKE CITY REPORTER SPORTS FRID AY & SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 & 21, 2013 3B3BSPORTS JERNIGAN: A star on every level Continued From Page 1B GOLF REPORTS GATORS: To meet Michigan in 2017 Continued From Page 1BFor the second week in a row, Sundays blitz was all about ties. Bob Wheary rolled in a birdie on No. 16 to take a spot at the top with David Rhodes and Dave Mehl. All three shot +5. Steve Thomas was in solo fourth with +4 on the strength of three birdies. Closest to the pin winners were Bruce Ford on No. 5, Bruce Gibson on No. 7, Josh Boris on No. 15 and Thomas on No. 17. Thomas collected two skins, leaving one each for Mike Jacobs, Mehl, Rhodes and Wheary. Bruce Gibson and Eddy Brown broke out of a log-jam to tie for first place at +7 in Saturdays blitz. Steve Thomas finished his round with four birdies but settled for a third-place tie with Keith Shaw, Don Combs and Scott Kishton at +6. Thomas made his money in the skins game with three. Jonathan Allen and Gibson each had one. Both flight winners in the Saturday blitz went to double digits to leave the rest of the field far behind. Buddy Slay took the A flight with +10, six points better than Ed Snow in second. Mike Gough was another point back in third. Charlie Timmons went Slay one point better to take the B flight with +11. A.J. Lavin was his closest pursuer at +5. Don Combs finished third with +3. Slay and Gough were the only winners who scored a skin. Joe Paul, Bud Johnson, Jordan Hale and Jerry Smith had the other keepers. Smith lost out on a pot hole prize by skipping the game. Two pot holes remain in play. Both Good Old Boys matches had clear winners. The team of Bobby Simmons, Jim McGriff, Howard Whitaker and Steve Peters had the easiest time, topping the foursome of Rhea Hart, Emerson Darst, Bill Rogers and Dennis Hendershot by 8-4. The three-way match was a little closer. The team of Ed Snow, Rob Brown, Stan Woolbert and Paul Davis put six points on the board to outdistance the team of Jerry West, Joe Persons, Don Christensen, Jim Stevens by three points and the team of Eli Witt, Dave Cannon, Bill Wheeler and Dan Stephens by four. Snow shot 39-38-77 to take individual honors. Stephens and Christensen each posted 79. Wheeler took the front side in nine hole play with a 39. Whitaker won the back nine with 38, one stroke bet-ter than West and Peters. The MGA Shamble is Saturday. Sign up in the pro shop by 5 p.m. Friday. The pro shop has a nice selection of Christmas gifts. COUNTRY CLUB at LAKE CITY Ed Goff COURTESYThe Christian Service Center and Catholic Charities rece ived generous donations from The Country Club at Lake Citys Ladies Golf Association. Th e annual LGA invitational tournament, held under the sponsorship of The Furniture Sho wplace, made these donations possible. Pictured during one award ceremony are LGA member Katrina Counts (from left), Catholic Charities Director Suzanne Edwards and LGA me mber Anita West.More ties for Christmas Saturdays two-person best ball tournament was the perfect example of how golf is a game for every-one. The first flight net winners with a 61 was the father and daughter team of Brooke Russell and Phillip Russell. First flight gross honors with a 69 went to Corey Depratter and Jason Self. Second Flight gross winners with a 71 were a pair of 13-year-old junior golf-ers, Tiara Carter and Matt Soucinek. Net honors went to the team of Luther Huffman and Al Greene with a 61. Third flight proved to be a super-tight finish with the father/son team of Jeff and Nick Tyre winning gross honors in a match of cards with an 83. Al Cohoon and Tim Tortorice took the match of cards over Gerald Smithy and Jack Tuggle to prevail for the net win with a 63. The optional skin game provided several winners: Q First Flight  Bob Feasel, Todd Carter, Kevin Odom, Depratter and Self; Q Second Flight  Soucinek, Huffman and Tiara Carter (2); Q Third Flight  Wallace Christie (2), Jeff Tyre (2), Gerald Smithy, Jack Tuggle and Ken Kellam. Everyone had a great time, only having to endure a brief drizzle at the begin-ning of the round. Mother Nature provided a window to complete the tourna-ment before the afternoon rain set in. The Ladies Golf Association would like to thank all the partici-pants who brought a toy for the annual donation the Christmas Dream Machine. Wednesday Blitz results: first-Luther Huffman +7; second (tie)-Keith Denmark, Billy Jones and Tim Tortorice. Skin winners were Jim Munns (2) and Tortorice. Closest to pin winners were Ronnie Ash on No. 3, Keith Hudson on Nos. 5 and 11, Joe Herring on No. 15 and Jones on No. 17. Friday Dogfight results: first-Jack Tuggle +4; sec-ond-Gerald Smithy +2; third (tie)-Al Cohoon, Richard Skipper and Tim Tortorice at even. Skin winners were Randy Heavrin, Bob Feasel (2), Tuggle and Chet Carter. Closest to pin winners were Heavrin on Nos. 5 and 17, Chet Carter on No. 11 and Tiara Carter on No. 15. Tim Tortorice and Jack Tuggle tied for first in Mondays Top of the Hill. The Sunday Scramble winning team was Corey Depratter, Todd Moore and Bruce Wimberly, posting a 4 under. The rollover pot had 4 chances to be won, but Brooke Russell pulled out No. 8 thus rolling the pot over to Sunday. The Sunday Scramble is open to golfers of all abilities; sign up by 2:30 for a 3 p.m. start. Quail Heights wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. QUAIL HEIGHTS COUNTRY CLUB Nicki Newmans Diverse field for best ball Masters adds 14 from world rankingAssociated PressAugusta National added 14 players to the field for the Masters when the final world ranking of the year was published this week. That brings the field to 90 players who are expected to compete April 10-13, and again rais-es the possibility of the Masters exceeding 100 players for the first time in nearly 50 years. Augusta National has the smallest field of the four majors and prefers to keep it under 100 to enhance the overall experience at its tournament. This is the third time in the last four years that the field was at least 90 players going into a new calendar year. There were 99 players for the 2011 Masters, the most since 103 players competed in 1966. Those who qualified by being in the top 50 of the final ranking were Hideki Matsuyama, Thomas Bjorn, Jamie Donaldson, Victor Dubuisson, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Francesco Molinari, Rickie Fowler, Matteo Manassero, David Lynn, Thongchai Jaidee, Peter Hanson, Joost Luiten and Branden Grace. Fowler was the only American of the 14. PAUL BUCHANAN /Lake City ReporterTimmy Jernigan Jr. takes on two offensive linemen from B ethune-Cookman University during a game for the Seminoles last season.PAUL BUCHANAN /Lake City ReporterTimmy Jernigan Jr. looks for the ball in a game for the Seminoles this season. Brian Allen didnt have the chance to coach Jernigan Jr. while he was a Tiger, he did have contact with him before he signed with the Seminoles. When I first got back here and he was a senior, he did weightlifting with us, Allen said. I see how much hes grown as a man. From the time he was in eighth grade, I knew that he was going to be a domi-nant player from seeing him work at the Showtime Camp at Florida State. I was able to see his ability when he was going against seniors. And of course, all of those that know him are proud of the man Jernigan Jr. is becoming. Hes maturing both on and off the field, Allen said. We definitely have had a relationship devel-op. Its impressive to see how much hes grown as a man and he gets that from everyone from the top down. Its a pleasure to have another kid go on and represent the school well. Every time he makes a tackle, you get to see the Columbia on the screen. Hes holding the rope for the program. Coppock believes Jernigan Jr. being select-ed as an All-American is something that everyone in the county should cel-ebrate together. Its an award for the community and something we can share in with him as a hometown product, Coppock said. Hes fol-lowing in the footsteps of his father and certainly living up to him. He had big shoes to fill, but hes doing a great job of filling them. The Jernigans did not return calls seeking comment. Michigan will be the away team, Florida the home team. Game offi-cials and replay crew will come from the Big 12 Conference. Each school will receive 25,000 tickets for the neutral-site game at AT&T Stadium, home to the NFLs Dallas Cowboys. The $1.2 billion stadium opened in 2009. It already hosted the Super Bowl and is scheduled for the 2014 NCAA mens Final Four and the first college foot-ball national championship under the new playoff for-mat in January 2015. Michigan played in 2012 Cowboys Classic, losing 41-14 to Alabama. We are excited to make a return trip to Dallas for the Cowboys Classic against Florida, Michigan coach Brady Hoke said. This is a great way to reach our fan base in the south and to con-tinue to expand our recruit-ing efforts in the state of Texas. Our goal is to have as many Michigan fans at the game as possible. This will be the third meeting between Michigan and Florida. Both previous matchups came in bowl games. Michigan won both: a 38-30 victory in the 2003 Outback Bowl and a 41-35 victory in the 2008 Capital One Bowl. Florida has struggled to fill stands for home games the last few years, espe-cially in games against non-conference opponents aside from Florida State. So moving a home date to a neutral-site venue  and guaranteeing a sellout and a significant payout  made sense financially. This is a great opportunity to expose the University of Florida nationally, playing one of the greatest programs in the history of college foot-ball, Foley said. I think a tremendous trip for our fans. We just havent done much of this, certainly as long as Ive been athletic director. I think there are a lot of positives that come out of it.

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4B LAKE CITY REPORTER ADVICE & PUZZLES FRIDAY & SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20-21, 2013 DEAR ABBY: I have been married to my wife for a year and a half, and we have an infant child. I work while my wife stays home. My problem is she doesnt like me play-ing sports and hanging out with friends. I have tried to make concessions and cut down playing sports to once a week. (I used to play two or three times a week, but thats not good enough for my wife.) On game night, when I get home she gives me the silent treatment. She used to come to my games but wont now, even though she has girl-friends who attend them. As for hanging out with my friends, I barely see them anymore  and when I do, they come here. If they stay any longer than 30 min-utes, it causes a problem and my wife again wont talk to me for the rest of the night. I have tried to compromise, but she feels as though any time I spend away from her and the baby is a no-no. Am I wrong to want to play sports and see my guy friends? I have tried talking to her about this, but she thinks any compromise is basically me doing what I want and her having to deal with it.  ONTARIO, CANADA, READER DEAR READER: You should not become a couch potato or become isolated from your friends because you are married and a parent. And neither should your wife. She may resent the time you spend with your friends because shes stuck at home taking care of the baby. You are her only adult company, and in a way she may be jealous that youre enjoying freedom that she cant. Your wife should not be doing all the parent-ing. One day or evening a week YOU should take care of the baby while SHE takes a break with her friends or family. It could do wonders for your relationship. If you can agree on this, it could save your mar-riage. If you cant, then the two of you should get counseling. Marriage isnt supposed to put people in isolation -and thats what it appears your wife is trying to accomplish with you.Holiday plans to be made together DEAR ABBY: For the past 10 years, the holiday season has brought with it arguments between my wife and me. We both get along with our in-laws and do many things with both sides of our families. But for some reason, my wife makes arrangements for the holidays without discussing them with me first. This year, she told her mom we would host Thanksgiving and that I would have to tell my family we wouldnt be coming to them. My wifes sisters are not close to their in-laws. Am I wrong to think she should have discussed the matter with me before deciding unilaterally what were doing for the holidays? Our kids need to see ALL their grand-parents on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Oh  our parents live only seven minutes from each other.  HOLIDAY BLUES IN WISCONSIN DEAR HOLIDAY BLUES: What your wife did was inconsiderate. You are a couple, and she should have discussed her plan with you before issuing any invitations to see if you were in agree-ment. If your home is too small to accommodate both sets of in-laws at the same time, a compromise would be to alternate holidays with each set so no family feels excluded.Smartphone keeps sisters from talking DEAR ABBY: My younger sister Lainie is 14. She has had a smart-phone for about a year. While I dont belong to any social media sites, Lainie is a social media junkie. She never goes anywhere without her phone. Sometimes shell have her phone in one hand and her tablet in the other, taking turns when one or the other begins to bore her. Its almost impossible to interact with her because her face is buried in the virtual world just about every hour of the day and night. I miss the way things used to be before she got that smartphone. I have talked about this with my parents. While they are equally concerned about Lainies withdrawn, some-times secretive behavior, they never do anything about it. What are your thoughts on this topic?  GADGET GIRLS SISTER IN NEW MEXICO DEAR SISTER: Its common for teens to spend a lot of time on their phones and com-puters. But when they become withdrawn and secretive, it is time for a parental intervention. If your folks are equally con-cerned about your sisters behavior, they should step in, find out whats going on and do something about it, if necessary. If they dont already, they could start by schedul-ing family dinners during which cellphones are turned off or put away. Wedding guest questions attire DEAR ABBY: Is it acceptable to wear a sil-ver dress to a wedding if you are going as a guest and not a member of the bridal party? Or is silver too close to white and therefore taboo?  INVITEE IN COLLEGE PARK, MD. DEAR INVITEE: The rule is that wedding guests should not wear anything that might dis-tract attention from the bride. If your dress is silver lame or covered in silver sequins, it would be better to dress less conspicuously. HOROSCOPES DEAR ABBY ARIES (March 21April 19): A change of attitude will give you the confidence you need to make things happen in your life. Explore new people, places and pastimes and you will discover something or someone you really enjoy. A little effort will go a long way. +++++ TAURUS (April 20May 20): Do your best to make improvements to your domestic situa-tion. Accommodate the people you love and compromise to keep things running smoothly in your personal life. What you do now will make a difference in the future regarding impor-tant relationships. ++ GEMINI (May 21June 20): Re-evaluate how you make money or what your strategy is to improve your earning potential. The solutions you settle on should be using your strongest talents and skills to the utmost. Consider pick-ing up additional knowl-edge. Self-improvement will pay off. ++++ CANCER (June 21July 22): Get motivated and moving. Dont let the last-minute changes that someone else makes ruin your plans or your day. Picking up unusual items at a good price will ease the stress that has been building due to family dynamics. +++ LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Youll be feisty and ready to take on whatever comes your way. Plan your day accordingly and use your energy wisely. Shopping or engaging in other activi-ties will require physical endurance. Playful social interaction will round out your day. +++ VIRGO (Aug. 23Sept. 22): Take care of your responsibilities. Dont leave room for crit-icism. Focus on what you can do to help others, as well as making what-ever personal changes you want to implement before the year comes to a close. +++ LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Make arrangements to travel or plans that include what you are doing dur-ing the upcoming fes-tivities. Dont let anyone make you feel bad about the choices you make. You have to be true to yourself first and fore-most. ++ SCORPIO (Oct. 23Nov. 21): Emotions will flow and sharing feelings with someone you care for will let you know exactly where you stand and what to expect in the future. Romantic plans will help improve a relationship that means the world to you. ++ SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Present, promote and make your-self heard. Money mat-ters can be taken care of and changes to the way or where you spend your time look favor-able. Dont let love cost you; its what you do, not what you give, that counts. +++++ CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Ask questions and stay on top of a situation that con-cerns you emotionally. A couple of changes may be required in order to please someone you love. Be careful while travel-ing or dealing with sticky situations. Listen to con-cerns carefully. +++ AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Offer what you can and fol-low through with your promises. Consider the changes you want to make regarding your career and your friend-ships. Re-evaluate whats transpired and use past experience to come up with a solution and a way to move forward. +++ PISCES (Feb. 19March 20): Its playtime. Have fun with friends, family or your lover. Expand your inter-ests by trying some-thing new. Get in the spirit of the season and pick up items that will boost your confidence or please someone you love. +++ Happy Birthday: There is money to be made, but budgets must be kept. Your easy come, easy go attitude will need adjusting if you want to prosper. Dedication and detail will have to be a priority if you want to impress anyone influential in your life. Be a leader, not a follower, and you will set a new standard and gain respect. Your numbers are 6, 10, 17, 27, 36, 38, 47. THE LAST WORD Eugenia Last Husband seeking compromise should give his wife a break Q Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. Abigail Van Burenwww.dearabby.com Puzzle Solutions on the next page.

6B LAKECITYREPORTER CLASSIFIEDFRIDAY& SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 &21, 2013 Lake City Reporter Classifieds Classifieds dial-a-pro Reporter Service DirectoryTo place a Reporter Service Directory Ad in Columbia and surrounding CountiesHighlight Your Reporter Service Directory Ad With Ar twork-Ask Your Representative For Details 386-755-5440 Tree ServiceHALSEY & Sons Tree Service Tree trimming/removal/Lic & Ins. All major credit cards accepted. Call 352-745-0630. LegalIN THE CIRCUITCOURTOF THE THIRD JUDICIALCIRCUITIN AND FOR COLUMBIACOUNTY, FLORIDAGENERALJURISDIC-TION DIVISIONCASE NO. 12-2011-CA-000530OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC, Plaintiff,vs.EDNAEDITH ROBERTA/K/AEDNAEDITH GARCIAROBERTA/K/AEDNAGARCIAA/K/AED-NAE. ROBERTA/K/AEDNAROBERT, et. al., Defendant(s).NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALENOTICE IS HEREBYGIVEN pur-suant to a Final Judgment of Foreclo-sure dated November 26, 2013, and entered in 12-2011-CA-000530 of the Circuit Court of the Third Judi-cial Circuit in and for Columbia County, Florida, wherein OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC, is the Plaintiff and EDNAEDITH ROB-ERT, A/K/AEDNAEDITH GAR-CIAROBERTA/K/AEDNAGAR-CIAA/K/AEDNAE. ROBERTA/K/AEDNAROBERT; UN-KNOWN TENANT(S) are the De-fendant(s). P. Dewitt Cason as the Clerk of the Circuit Court will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, 173 NE Hernando Ave., Lake City, FL32056, at 11:00 AM on January 8, 2014, the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit:Situate, lying and being in Columbia County, Florida, to wit:Apart of the Southeast 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4 of Section 10, Town-ship 7 South, Range 17 East, more particularly described as follows:Begin at the Northwest corner of the Southeast 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4 of said Section 10 and run North 88 de-grees 2120East along the North line of said Southeast 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4, 331.87 feet; thence South 02 degrees 0217East, 626.91 feet to the North right-of-way line of Adams Road; thence South 88 degrees, 2120West along said right-of-way line, 332.22 feet; thence North 02 degrees 0024West, 629.91 feet to the point of beginning of the Public Records of Columbia County, Florida, also known as Tract 8, Carmellas Subdivision, unrecord-ed.Together with that certain 1981 Highway Trailer double wide mobile home, VIN #GAFL2AA44053551 and GAFL2BA44053551.Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any, oth-er the property owner as of the date of the lis pendens must file a claim within 60 days after the sale.If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceed-ing, you are entitled at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assis-tance. Persons with a disability who need any accommodation in order to participate should call Jacquetta Bradley, ADACoordinator, Third Judicial Circuit, P.O. Box 1569, Lake City, Florida, at (386) 719-7428 within two (2) working days of your receipt of this notice; if you are hearing impaired call (800) 955-8771; if you are voice impaired, call (800) 955-8770.Dated this 27th day of November, 2013.P. Dewitt CasonAs Clerk of the CourtBy: /s/ B. ScippioAs Deputy Clerk05542399December 13, 20, 2013 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Tom Nehl Truck Co Gives Notice Of Foreclosure Of Lien And Intent To Sell The Following Vehicle On 01/07/2014, 11:00 a.m. At 383 SWArrowhead Terr, Lake City, FL32024, Pursuant To Subsection 713.78 Of The Florida Statutes. Tom Nehl Truck Co Reserves The Right ToAccept Or Reject Any And/Or All Bids Less Than The Lien Amount Owed. All Vehicles Sold As Is Where Is. Cash Only. No Titles Guaranteed.2000 Volvo TractorVIN: 4V4ND1RH6YN79289305542373December 20, 2013 LegalIN THE CIRCUITCIVILCOURTOF THE THIRD JUDICIALCIR-CUITOF FLORIDA, IN AND FOR COLUMBIACOUNTYCIVILDIVISIONCase No. 12-2013-CA-000029DivisionSUNTRUSTMORTGAGE, INC.Plaintiff,vs.TRACYD. LAWRENCE AND UN-KNOWN TENANTS/OWNERS,Defendants.NOTICE OF SALENotice is hereby given, pursuant to Final Judgment of Foreclosure for Plaintiff entered in this cause on No-vember 26, 2013, in the Circuit Court of Columbia County, Florida, I will sell the property situated in Co-lumbia County, Florida described as:LOTS 1 & 2, BLOCK 2, ISABELLAGARDENS, ACCORDING TO THE MAPOR PLATTHEREOF AS RE-CORDED IN PLATBOOK 1, PAGE 3, OF THE PUBLIC RE-CORDS OF COLUMBIACOUN-TY, FLORIDA.and commonly known as: 632 SE CAMPSTREET, LAKE CITY, FL32025; including the building, appur-tenances, and fixtures located there-in, at public sale, to the highest and best bidder, for cash, ATTHE FRONTDOOR OF THE COLUM-BIACOUNTYCOURTHOUSE, 145 N. HERNANDO STREET, LAKE CITY, FLORIDA, on January 15, 2014 at 11:00 a.m.Any persons claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any other than the property owner as of the date of the lis pendens must file a claim within 60 days after the sale.Dated this 27 day of November, 2013.Clerk of the Circuit CourtP. Dewitt CarsonBy: /s/ B. ScippioDeputy Clerk05542438December 13, 20, 2013 IN THE CIRCUITCIVILCOURTOF THE THIRD JUDICIALCIR-CUITOF FLORIDA, IN AND FOR COLUMBIACOUNTYCIVILACTIONCase No. 12-2013-CA-000296DivisionJPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NA-TIONALASSOCIATIONPlaintiff,vs.ANSON D. SIMQUE, JENNYL. SIMQUE AND UNKNOWN TEN-ANTS/OWNERS,Defendants.NOTICE OF SALENotice is hereby given, pursuant to Final Judgment of Foreclosure for Plaintiff entered in this cause on No-vember 26, 2013, in the Circuit Court of Columbia County, Florida, I will sell the property situated in Co-lumbia County, Florida descirbed as:LOT4, BLOCK B, THE OAKS SUBDIVISION, ASUBDIVISION ACCORDING TO THE PLATTHEREOF RECORDED IN PLATBOOK 5, PAGE 4 OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF COLUMBIACOUNTY, FLORIDA.and commonly known as: 127 SWFAULCT, LAKE CITY, FL32024; including the building, appurtenan-ces, and fixtures located therein, at public sale, to the highest and best bidder, for case, ATTHE FRONTDOOR OF THE COLUMBIACOUNTYCOURTHOUSE, 145 N. HERNANDO STREET, LAKE CITY, FLORIDA, on January 15, 2014 at 11:00 a.m.Any persons claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any, oth-er than the property owner as of the date of the lis pendens must file a claim within 60 days after the sale.Dated this 27 day of November, 2013Clerk of the Circuit CourtP. Dewitt CarsonBy: /s/ B. ScippioDeputy Clerk05542437December 13, 20, 2013 IN THE CIRCUITCOURTOF THE THIRD JUDICIALCIRCUITIN AND FOR COLUMBIACOUNTY, FLORIDACIVILDIVISIONCase No. 13-186-CAUS Bank NAas Legal Title Trustee for Truman 2012 SC2 Title Trust, Plaintiff,vs.SHERIE AARON A/K/ASHERIE J. AARON and all unknown parties claiming by, through, under and against the above named Defendant who are unknown to be dead or alive whether said unknown are persons, heirs, devisees, grantees, or other claimants; TENANTI/UNKNOWN TENANT; TENANTII/UNKNOWN TENANT; TENANTIII/UN-KNOWN TENANTand TENANTIV/UNKNOWN TENANT, in pos-session of the subject real property Defendants.NOTICE OF SALENotice is hereby given pursuant to the final judgment/order entered in the above noted case, that I will sell the following property situated in Columbia County, Florida described as:Begin at the Northwest corner of Lot 3, Block 5, Alline Thompson, Addi-tion No. 1, a subdivision according to plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 3, Page 25, of the Public Records of Columbia County, Florida, and run Legalthence south 0 degree 5130West along the West line of Lots 3, 4 and 5 of said Block 5, 208.51 feet to the North right of way of Long Street; thence North 89 degrees 3530West along said North right of way line, 70.0 feet; thence North 0 de-grees 5130East, 209.00 feet to the South line of Lot 7, Block 5 of Al-line Thompson Addition No. 1; thence South 89 degrees 1110East along the South line of Lots 7 and 6 of said Block 5, 70.00 feet to the Point of Beginning.at public sale, to the highest and best bidder for cash, on the 3rd Floor of the Columbia County Courthouse, 173 N.E. Hernando Ave., Lake City, Florida at 11:00 A.M. on January 15, 2014. The highest bidder shall imme-diately post with the Clerk, a deposit equal to five percent (5%) of the fi-nal bid. The deposit must be cash or cashiers check payable to the Clerk of the Court. Final payment must be made on or before 5:00 P.M. on the sate of the sale by cash or cashiers check.ANYPERSON CLAIMING AN IN-TERESTIN THE SURPLUS FROM THE SALE, IF ANY, OTHER THAN THE PROPERTYOWNER AS OF THE DATE OF THE LIS PENDENS MUSTFILE ACLAIM WITHIN 60 DAYS AFTER THE SALE.Dated: November 27, 2013CLERK OF THE COURTBY: /s/ B. ScippioDeputy Clerk05542439December 13, 20, 2013 IN THE CIRCUITCOURTOF THE THIRD JUDICIALCIRCUITIN AND FOR COLUMBIACOUN-TY, FLORIDAJUVENILE DIVISIONIN THE INTERESTOF: CASE NO.: 2012-118-DPB.L.P.P-A. (M) DOB: 03/21/2011MINOR CHILD.SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF AD-VISORYHEARING FOR TERMI-NATION OF PARENTALRIGHTS AND GUARDIANSHIPSTATE OF FLORIDA:TO: Juan Pablo Perez-Aguilar (address unknown) WHEREAS, a Petition for Termina-tion of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above-referenced child, a copy of which is on file with the Clerk of Court.YOU ARE HEREBYCOMMAND-ED TO APPEAR before the Honora-ble Wesley R. Douglas, Circuit Judge, at the Columbia County Courthouse, Lake City, Florida, on JANUARY22, 2014, at 10:30 A.M., for a Termination of Parental Rights Advisory Hearing. YOU MUSTAPPEAR ON THE DATE AND ATTHE TIME SPECI-FIED.*****FAILURE TO PERSONAL-LYAPPEAR ATTHIS ADVISORYHEARING CONSTITUTES CON-SENTTO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTALRIGHTS TO THIS CHILD (OR CHILDREN). IF YOU FAILTO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED YOU MAYLOSE ALLLEGALRIGHTS TOTHE CHILD (OR CHILDREN) NAMED IN THE PETITION AT-TACHED HERETO.********Pursuant to Sections 39.802(4)(d) and 63.082(6)(g), Florida Statutes, you are hereby informed of the avail-ability of private placement with an adoption entity, as defined in Section 63.032(3), Florida Statutes.Special Accommodations. In ac-cordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you are a person with a disability who needs any ac-commodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact Carrina Cooper, Court Administra-tion, 173 NE Hernando Avenue, Room 408, Lake City, Florida 32055, Telephone (386) 758-2163, at least seven (7) days before your scheduled court appearance or imme-diately upon receiving this notifica-tion if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than seven (7) days. If you are hearing impaired or voice impaired, call 711. WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Lake City, Columbia Coun-ty, Florida, on this 11th day of De-cember 2013.P. DEWITTCASONClerk of Circuit CourtBy: /s/ S. RodriguezDeputy Clerk05542586December 20, 27, 2013January 3, 10, 2014 IN THE CIRCUITCOURTOF THE THIRD JUDICIALCIRCUITIN AND FOR COLUMBIACOUNTY, FLORIDACIVILDIVISIONCASE NO. 2012-CA-000550GENERATION MORTGAGE COMPANYPlaintiff(s),vs.MOSES CAMPBELL, et. al.Defendant(s).NOTICE OF SALEPURSUANTTO CHAPTER 45NOTICE IS HEREBYGIVEN pur-suant to an Order or Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated November 26, 2013, and entered in Case No. 2012-CA-000550 of the Circuit Court of Legalthe 3RD Judicial Circuit in and for COLUMBIACounty, Florida, wherein GENERATION MORT-GAGE is the Plaintiff and ANYUN-KNOWN PARTYWHO MAYCLAIM AS HEIR, DEVISEE, GRANTEE, ASSIGNEE, LIENOR, CREDITOR, TRUSTEE OR OTH-ER PARTIES CLAIMING AN IN-TEREST, BY, THROUGH, UNDER OR AGAINSTTHE ESTATE OF MOSES CAMPBELL, DECEASED AND UNITED STATES OF AMERICAON BEHALF OF THE SECRETARYOF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENTare the Defendants, I will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at the front steps of the Columbia County Court-house, 145 North Hernando Street, Lake City, Florida at 11:00 a.m. on the 8th day of January, 2014, the fol-lowing described property as set forth in said Order of Final Judg-ment, to wit:ALLTHATCERTAIN LAND SIT-UATE IN COLUMBIACOUNTY, FLORIDA, VIZ: COMMENCE ATTHE NORTHWESTCORNER OF BLOCK 58 IN THE NORTHEAST-ERN DIVISION OF THE CITYOF LAKE CITY, FLORIDAAND RUN THENCE SOUTHERLYALONG THE WESTLINE OF SAID BLOCK 58 ADISTANCE OF 72 FEETFOR APOINTOF BEGIN-NING; AND RUN THENCE EAST-ERLY, PARALLELTO NORTH LINE OF SAID BLOCK 58, 100 FEET; THENCE SOUTHERLY, PARALLELTO SAID WESTLINE OF BLOCK 58; THENCE NORTH-ERLY, ALONG SAID WESTLINE OF BLOCK 58, 53.4 FEETTO THE POINTOF BEGINNING.ALSO COMMENCE ATTHE NORTHWESTCORNER OF BLOCK 58 IN THE NORTHEAST-ERN DIVISION OF THE CITYOF LAKE CITY, FLORIDAAND RUN THENCE SOUTHERLYALONG WESTLINE OF SAID BLOCK 58, 125.4 FEETFOR APOINTOF BE-GINNING; THENCE RUN EAST-ERLY, PARALLELTO NORTH LINE OF SAID BLOCK 58, 100 FEET; THENCE RUN SOUTHER-LY, PARALLELTO SAID WESTLINE OF BLOCK 58, 53.3 FEETTHENCE RUN WESTERLY, PAR-ALLELTO SAID NORTH LINE OF BLOCK 58, 100 FEETTO THE SAID WESTLINE OF BLOCK 58, 53.3 FEET; THENCE RUN WEST-ERLY, PARALLELTO SAID NORTH LINE OF BLOCK 58, 100 FEETTO THE SAID WESTLINE OF BLOCK 58; THENCE RUN NORTHERLYALONG SAID WESTLINE OF BLOCK 58, 53.3 FEETTO THE POINTOF BEGIN-NING.ALSO COMMENCE ATTHE NORTHWESTCORNER OF BLOCK 58 IN THE NORTHEAST-ERN DIVISION OF THE CITYOF LAKE CITY, FLORIDA, AND RUN THENCE SOUTHERLYALONG WESTLINE OF SAID BLOCK 58, 72 FEET; THENCE RUN EASTERLYPARALLELTO NORTH LINE OF SAID BLOCK 58, 100 FEETFOR APOINTOF BEGINNING; THENCE CONTIN-UE EASTERLY, PARALLELTO SAID NORTH LINE OF BLOCK 58, 110 FEETTO THE EASTLINE OF SAID BLOCK 58; THENCE RUN SOUTHERLYALONG SAID EASTLINE OF BLOCK 58, 160 FEET; THENCE RUN WESTERLYPARALLELTO SAID NORTH LINE OF BLOCK 58, 110 FEET; THENCE RUN NORTHERLYPARALLELTO SAID EASTLINE OF BLOCK 58, 160 FEETTO THE POINTOF BEGINNING, LESS AND EXCEPTTHE SOUTH 52.3 FEETOF LOTNO. 5 IN BLOCK 58 (END OF LESS OUT).And commonly known as: 931 NE CATAWBAAVE., LAKE CITY, FL32055IF YOU ARE APERSON CLAIM-ING ARIGHTTO FUNDS RE-MAINING AFTER THE SALE, YOU MUSTFILE ACLAIM WITHIN THE CLERK OF COURTNO LATER THAN 60 DAYS AF-TER THE SALE. IF YOU FAILTO FILE ACLAIM, YOU WILLNOTBE ENTITLED TO ANYREMAIN-ING FUNDS. AFTER 60 DAYS, ONLYTHE OWNER OF RECORD AS OF THE DATE OF THE LIS PENDENS MAYCLAIM THE SURPLUS."In accordance with the Americans With Disabilities Act, persons in need of a special accommodation to participate in this proceeding shall, within seven (7) days prior to any proceeding, contact the Administra-tive Office of the Court, COLUM-BIACounty, 173 NE HERNANDO STREET, LAKE CITY, FL32055, County Phone: 386-758-1036 TDD 1-800-955-8771 or 1-800-955-8770 via Florida Relay Service".DATED at COLUMBIACounty, Florida, this 27 day of November, 2013.P. DEWITTCASON, ClerkCOLUMBIACounty, FloridaBy: B. ScippioDeputy Clerk05542413December 13, 20, 2013 LegalIN THE CIRCUITCOURTOF THE THIRD JUDICIALCIRCUITIN AND FOR COLUMBIACOUN-TY, FLORIDAJUVENILE DIVISIONIN THE INTERESTOF: CASE NO.: 2013-04-DPM. K. DOB: 01/16/2013MINOR CHILD.SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF AD-VISORYHEARING FOR TERMI-NATION OF PARENTALRIGHTS AND GUARDIANSHIPSTATE OF FLORIDA:TO: Earl Jones(address unknown)WHEREAS, a Petition for Termina-tion of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above-referenced child, a copy of which is on file with the Clerk of Court,YOU ARE HEREBYCOMMAND-ED TO APPEAR before the Honora-ble Wesley R. Douglas, Circuit Judge, at the Columbia County Courthouse, Lake City, Florida, on JANUARY22, 2014, at 10:30 A.M., for a Termination of Parental Rights Advisory Hearing. YOU MUSTAPPEAR ON THE DATE AND ATTHE TIME SPECI-FIED.*****FAILURE TO PERSONAL-LYAPPEAR ATTHIS ADVISORYHEARING CONSTITUTES CON-SENTTO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTALRIGHTS TO THIS CHILD (OR CHILDREN). IF YOU FAILTO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED YOU MAYLOSE ALLLEGALRIGHTS TOTHE CHILD (OR CHILDREN) NAMED IN THE PETITION AT-TACHED HERETO.********Pursuant to Sections 39.802(4)(d) and 63.082(6)(g), Florida Statutes, you are hereby informed of the avail-ability of private placement with an adoption entity, as defined in Section 63.032(3), Florida Statutes.Special Accommodations. In ac-cordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you are a person with a disability who needs any ac-commodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact Carrina Cooper, Court Administra-tion, 173 NE Hernando Avenue, Room 408, Lake City, Florida 32055, Telephone (386) 758-2163, at least seven (7) days before your scheduled court appearance or imme-diately upon receiving this notifica-tion if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than seven (7) days. If you are hearing impaired or voice impaired, call 711. WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Lake City, Columbia Coun-ty, Florida, on this 18th day of De-cember 2013.P. DEWITTCASON Clerk of Circuit CourtBy: /s/ S. RodriguezDeputy Clerk05542591December 20, 27, 2013January 3, 10, 2014 NOTICE OF PROPOSED ENACT-MENTOF ORDINANCE BYTHE TOWN COUNCILOF THE TOWN OF FORTWHITE, FLORIDANOTICE IS HEREBYGIVEN pur-suant to Section 166.041, Florida Statutes, that the proposed Ordi-nance, which titles hereinafter ap-pears, will be considered for adop-tion on second reading at the meeting of the Town Council commencing at 7:30 PM, in the Town Hall, Fort White, Florida on January 13, 2014. Acopy of said Ordinance may be in-spected by any member of the public at the office of the Town Clerk dur-ing regular business hours (Mon.-Thurs. 1:00-5:00pm or Fri. 9:00am-1:00pm) at the Town Hall. At the aforementioned meeting, all interest-ed parties may appear and be heard with respect to the proposed Ordi-nance.ORDINANCE NO. 180-2014AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF FORTWHITE, FLORIDA; GRANTING TO DUKE ENERGY, INC d/b/a DUKE ENERGY, ANON-EXCLUSIVE ELECTRIC UTILITYRIGHTS OF WAYUTI-LIZATION FRANCHISE; PRE-SCRIBING THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS RELATED TO THE OCCUPANCYOF MUNICIPALSTREETS AND RIGHTS OF WAYIN THE TOWN OF FORTWHITE, FLORIDA, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING ELECTRIC SERVICE; PROVIDING FOR SEV-ERABILITYOF PROVISIONS; AND PROVIDING AN EFFEC-TIVE DATE.Janice RevelsTown Clerk05542581December 20, 2013 LegalIN THE CIRCUITCOURTOF THE THIRD JUDICIALCIRCUITIN AND FOR COLUMBIACOUN-TY, FLORIDAJUVENILE DIVISIONIN THE INTERESTOF: CASE NO.: 2013-04-DPM. K. DOB: 01/16/2013MINOR CHILD.SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF AD-VISORYHEARING FOR TERMI-NATION OF PARENTALRIGHTS AND GUARDIANSHIPSTATE OF FLORIDA:TO: Natosha Kelley(address unknown)WHEREAS, a Petition for Termina-tion of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above-referenced child, a copy of which is on file with the Clerk of Court,YOU ARE HEREBYCOMMAND-ED TO APPEAR before the Honora-ble Wesley R. Douglas, Circuit Judge, at the Columbia County Courthouse, Lake City, Florida, on JANUARY22, 2014, at 10:30 A.M., for a Termination of Parental Rights Advisory Hearing. YOU MUSTAPPEAR ON THE DATE AND ATTHE TIME SPECI-FIED.*****FAILURE TO PERSONAL-LYAPPEAR ATTHIS ADVISORYHEARING CONSTITUTES CON-SENTTO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTALRIGHTS TO THIS CHILD (OR CHILDREN). IF YOU FAILTO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED YOU MAYLOSE ALLLEGALRIGHTS TOTHE CHILD (OR CHILDREN) NAMED IN THE PETITION AT-TACHED HERETO.********Pursuant to Sections 39.802(4)(d) and 63.082(6)(g), Florida Statutes, you are hereby informed of the avail-ability of private placement with an adoption entity, as defined in Section 63.032(3), Florida Statutes.Special Accommodations. In ac-cordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you are a person with a disability who needs any ac-commodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact Carrina Cooper, Court Administra-tion, 173 NE Hernando Avenue, Room 408, Lake City, Florida 32055, Telephone (386) 758-2163, at least seven (7) days before your scheduled court appearance or imme-diately upon receiving this notifica-tion if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than seven (7) days. If you are hearing impaired or voice impaired, call 711. WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Lake City, Columbia Coun-ty, Florida, on this 18th day of De-cember 2013.P. DEWITTCASON Clerk of Circuit CourtBy: /s/ S. RodriguezDeputy Clerk05542592December 20, 27, 2013January 3, 10, 2014 PUBLIC NOTICECONCERNING FAIR HOUSINGOn January 7, 1988, the Board of County Commissioners of Columbia County, Florida adopted Ordinance No. 88-1, which established the poli-cy of the County to promote equal opportunity to obtain adequate hous-ing by all persons, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex, place of birth, physical handicap or nation-al origin. On February 17, 1994, the Board of County Commissioners of Columbia County, Florida adopted an Ordinance No. 94-3 amending Or-dinance No. 88-1 to add familial sta-tus as a protected class from discrim-ination in the sale or rental of hous-ing.These ordinances are available for public inspection at the Office of the County Manager, County Adminis-trative Offices located at 135 North-east Hernando Street, Lake City, Florida, Monday through Friday be-tween the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M.Any aggrieved person may file a complaint of a housing discrimina-tion act with the: Florida Commis-sion on Human Relations, 2009 Apa-lachee Parkway, Suite 100, Tallahas-see, Florida 32301, Toll-free Tele-phone: 1.800.342.8170 or U.S. De-partment of Housing and Urban De-velopment, 451 7th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20410, Toll-free Telephone: 1.800.669.9777Torequest information or assistance locally, you may contact the County Manager, at the County Administra-tive Offices or telephone 386.755.4100.05542577December 20, 2013 PublishedMonthlybythe Lake City Reporter LAKE CITY REPORTER This Reporter Works For You! 755-5440Classifieds 755-5445 Circulation REPORTER Classifieds In Print and On Linewww.lakecityreporter.com